<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Names - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43679]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know there's a Derby out there with my name on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43680]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is . . . a lot of crossed off names in an address book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666]]></link><description><![CDATA[However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43667]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43668]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, "Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43654]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss: A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. If we must have them, let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to MH.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43655]]></link><description><![CDATA[You should never name an animal which is not yours to keep, or which you intend to eat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the United States, I'm a bum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43660]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43661]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662]]></link><description><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43664]]></link><description><![CDATA[File names are infinite in length where infinity is set to 255 characters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought!  Then when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43651]]></link><description><![CDATA["Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter Among the immortals when that word was brought!  Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after,   High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught!    "All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said,     And Dante nodded his imperial head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43652]]></link><description><![CDATA[My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! replied my gentle fair, Beloved, what are names but air?  Choose thou, whatever suits the line:   Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,    Call me Lalage, or Doris,     Only, only, call me thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dodgerest of all the dodgers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43643]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dodgerest of all the dodgers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43644]]></link><description><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives who dies to win a lasting name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above any Greek or Roman name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above any Greek or Roman name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot say the crow is white, But needs must call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! no! we never mention her, Her name is never heard;  My lips are now forbid to speak   That once familiar word.   - Thomas Haynes Bayly,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name is better than precious ointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43629]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name is better than precious ointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There be of them that have left a name behind them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43630]]></link><description><![CDATA[There be of them that have left a name behind them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43631]]></link><description><![CDATA[But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43632]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43633]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can call nothing by name if that is not his name. I call a cat a cat, and Rollet a rogue. [Fr., Je ne puis rien nommer si ce n'est par son nom;  J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rollet un fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Call a spade a spade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43637]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me,  And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,   Where I beheld what never was to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638]]></link><description><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638</guid></item></channel></rss>